Pennies are often plated for use in jewelry or as novelty items. That makes them altered coins worth only 1 cent.
However, cents dated 1983 or later, and some 1982s, are made of copper-plated zinc. Sometimes a high school student will dip a penny in acid and dissolve the copper. That again makes it a damaged coin.
There's still a third possibility: every once in a while a cent doesn't get copper-plated at the mint. That's a genuine error coin and can be worth up to $100. However such a coin has to be inspected carefully to make sure it isn't really one of the other 2 possibilities.
Pennies were also made of steel during WWII
They aren't made from nickel. Past US cents have been made of copper, bronze, or steel. Since 1982 they've been made of copper-plated zinc.True "pennies" from Britain (US coins are actually "cents") are made of copper-plated steel.The only US cents to contain nickel were Flying Eagle and some early-date Indian Head cents; they were 88% copper and 12% nickel.
Current U.S. quarters are made from copper and nickel as are dimes and nickels. Pennies are made from copper-plated zinc.
5 pennies make a nickel.
Five pennies to one nickel.
No, because a plated metal is not a mixture of elements.
probably some time after it was made. the military model was not nickel plated.
There are no British general circulation Pennies made from cupro nickel, from 1860 to 1967 they were all made from bronze. If you have a cupro nickel penny, it has been plated and is worthless as a collectible.
assuming it was nickel plated after market, it would lose value for that reason.....
By the color, obviously. NIckel plated flutes are slightly golden and well, silver plated, they have silver color.
Silver plated nickel is a metal object that has a thin layer of silver electroplated onto a nickel substrate. This plating enhances the appearance of the nickel object by giving it a shiny silver finish. Silver plated nickel is commonly used in decorative items, tableware, and jewelry.
5 pennies
The cast of The Nickel-Plated West - 1924 includes: Harry Sweet